As the PA program director of clinical education, Beverly Speece oversees and coordinates onsite experiences for students during the clinical component of the program. She first joined the UW–Madison PA program in 2005 as a course coordinator for clinical medicine, obstetrics and gynecology, emergency medicine, and the professional issues for physician assistants, and assumed the responsibility of director of clinical education in May 2013.
Speece is a 1997 graduate of UW-La Crosse’s first Physician Assistant program, and her background prior to PA school involved teaching various science courses at Madison College, working in an intensive care unit and volunteering as an EMT. Clinically, Speece has worked five years in family practice in the Twin Cities, 10 years in emergency medicine in Madison and Milwaukee and one year in cardiology in Milwaukee.